PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — A U.S. military plane left from Osan Air Base for North Korea on Friday to pick up the remains of what are believed to be U.S. servicemen killed during the Korean War, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. The U.S. military and South Korean government couldn't...
Zakaria: North Korea Summit Was Big Win for China
The cancellation of U.S. military exercises with South Korea is one of several troubling outcomes of President Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, writes Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria. The headline from the summit in Singapore earlier this month, in which Trump described the exercises as "provocative,"...
Little to Show for U.S. From North Korea Summit
SINGAPORE — The summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un wound up in a victory of style and image over real substance. Trump, hours after his historic meeting with Kim, defended the vague final declaration in a show of bluff and bluster in which he sought to make...
Zakaria: Trust is Loser in Trump Foreign Policy Gambits
President Donald Trump's bombastic foreign policy rhetoric is, to some, a needed departure from the "conventional" approach followed by his predecessors. But as Fareed Zakaria counters in his March 29 article in The Washington Post, the integrity of the United States is being diminished by Trump's shoot-from-the-hip style. "American presidents...
Trump and North Korea Shock the World. What's Next?
SEOUL — President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un shocked Americans and Koreans alike with their agreement to meet at a summit and go over the whole issue of denuclearization of North Korea, confrontation between North Korea and the United States, and North-South confrontation. The questions now are,...
U.S. Silver Medalist: Competition Is Small Part of Olympic Experience
Editor’s Note: On Feb. 11, 2018, Chris Mazdzer won the Olympic silver medal in men’s singles luge, becoming the first American to medal in the event. The five Olympic rings whose blue, yellow, black, green and red colors represent every flag in the world, is the most recognizable symbol worldwide....
U.S. Silver Medalist: Competition Is Small Part of Olympic Experience
Editor’s Note: On Feb. 11, 2018, Chris Mazdzer won the Olympic silver medal in men’s singles luge, becoming the first American to medal in the event. The five Olympic rings whose blue, yellow, black, green and red colors represent every flag in the world, is the most recognizable symbol worldwide....
U.S. Essential to South Korea Economic Miracle
Friday’s elaborate Winter Olympics opening ceremony, as is normally the case for the event’s host country, was a showcase for South Korea – its symbols, traditions, achievements and aspirations. But as Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria notes, the reality of South Korea’s rise from economic backwater just 50 years ago,...
U.S. Essential to South Korea Economic Miracle
Friday’s elaborate Winter Olympics opening ceremony, as is normally the case for the event’s host country, was a showcase for South Korea – its symbols, traditions, achievements and aspirations. But as Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria notes, the reality of South Korea’s rise from economic backwater just 50 years ago,...